OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leiden Journal of International Law is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-04-01 to 2026-04-01.)

Article	Citations
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	37
Recent developments in reliance upon third-party fact-finding at the International Court of Justice	27
China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?	19
The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law	18
Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $100	9
The rediscovery of the Roman jus gentium and the post 1945 international order	9
Legal measures to preserve lunar security and safety in the context of China–US competition to the Moon: An appraisal from China’s perspective	8
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders	8
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought	8
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	8
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	8
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis	7
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power	7
On consular internationalism	7
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law	6
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	6
Francisco de Paula Santander and Haiti, 1824–5: Non-solidarity, neocolonialism, and the Haitian Revolution in the origins of Latin American international law	6
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights	6
National climate litigation and the international rule of law	6
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court	6
Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion	6
Mapping representation before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	6
Entangled harms: A reparative approach to climate justice	6
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America – ERRATUM	5
Bibliography	5

Gaza Marine: The facts and the law – ADDENDUM	5
Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì’s ‘cross-examination’ of the international system	5
Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00	5
The judicial assessment of states’ action on climate change mitigation	5
LJL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	5
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	5
The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging	5
Seventeen men at Lake Success: In search of the International Law Commission	4
Bibliography	4
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	4
What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images	3
Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities	3
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong	3
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law	3
Dislodging the compulsory dispute settlement mechanism: Analysis of Article 281 of UNCLOS	3
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?	3
To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case	3
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial	3
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)	3
Reflections on our article ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’	3
Bibliography	3
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities	2
Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback	2
The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century	2
Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access	2
The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication	2
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.00	2
Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95	2
The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy	2
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion	2
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting	2
Dokhtaran -e- khiyaban -e- Enghelab [The Girls of Revolution Street]	2
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia	2
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations	2
Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–1821	2
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession	2
LJL volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	2
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)	2
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	2
Bibliography	2
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	2
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	1
The challenges of long-delayed prosecutions in fighting impunity in Bangladesh	1
Patryk I. Labuda, International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability: In the Court’s Shadow, Oxford University Press, 2023	1
In search of well-crafted amnesties: The emergence of a new jurisprudence on amnesty	1
LJL volume 37 issue 2 Cover and Back matter	1
From migration crisis to migrants’ rights crisis: The centrality of sovereignty in the EU approach to the protection of migrants’ rights	1
Secondary objectives of the European Central Bank and economic growth: A human rights perspective	1
Bibliography	1
Caroline E. Foster, Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes: Regulatory Coherence, Due Regard, and Due Diligence, Oxford University Press, 2021	1

Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines	1
International courts and sovereignty politics: Design, shielding, and reprisal at the African Court	1
Bibliography	1
International law and time between three paradigms	1
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes	1
LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
The ECtHR’s suitability test in national security cases: Two models for balancing human rights and national security	1
From international to imperial: The Indian princely states, international law, and the ends of empire in South Asia	1
Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade: An unwavering quest for international justice and for the universalization and humanization of international law	1
LJL volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Repaired but poor victims? The post-conflict encounter with transitional justice and the remaking of the field	1
Fin de siècle international law	1
Pricing and distribution in global value chain regulation	1
Sinja Graf , The Humanity of Universal Crime. Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, Oxford University Press, 2021, 256pp, £47.99	1
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	1
Developments in Canada on business and human rights: One step forward two steps back	1
Responses of international legal academia to the Russian invasion of Ukraine	1
The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: A constructive interpretation	1
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …	1
The challenge of phasing out fossil fuels for highly fossil fuel-dependent countries in international law	1
All those goings without you	1
Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field – EXPRESSION OF CONCERN	1
Between authority and (in)authenticity: How literary canons shaped jus gentium	1
Gravity of the crime and early release: A comparative study of early release practices in international tribunals	1
International law: A discipline of ambition	1
A critical analysis of the work of the ILC on ‘State Succession in Matters of State Responsibility’: A missed opportunity	1
Going Open Access	1
Bibliography	1
The demographics of victim participation at the International Criminal Court	1
Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	1
The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice	1
International law-making and the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea	1